Quotes About Belief

Still, it's better to believe that some high purpose guides our steps than to think that nothing matters except our own small miseries and happinesses.

No, said Ender. I don't know about souls. I just know that while we're alive, in these bodies, we can only do what our body can do. My parents believe in souls. I've known people who were absolutely sure. Smart people. Good people. So just because I don't understand it doesn't mean I'm sure it can't be true.

I understand that you believe that it works,' said Thrower patiently. 'But everything in the world is either science or miracles. Miracles came from God in the ancient times, but those times are over. Today if we wish to change the world, it isn't magic but science that will give us our tools.

I just don't know if people actually perceive which events are miracles and which are not. There are no doubt many miracles claimed which were not miracles at all. There are also probably many miracles that no one recognized when they occurred.

How could Quing-jao know what the gods meant by anything?

Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.

I'm on his death list, too." "Then why are you still alive?" asked Peter. "Because, contrary to widespread belief, Achilles is not a genius and he makes mistakes.

There are miracles even reactivity can't pull off, Ender

Why are they so stupid?' asked Human. 'Not to know the truth when they hear it?' 'They aren't stupid,' said the Speaker. 'This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe, and those we never think to question. They never thought to question the idea that the original Speaker for the Dead died three thousand years ago, even though they know how star travel prolongs life.

my courage is nothing but borrowed courage." "Not borrowed," said Mother. "Stored up. In us. Like a bank. We've seen your courage and we saved some for you when you temporarily ran out and needed some of it back." "Cash flow problem, that's all it was," said Father.

If you think that," said Bean, "you're an idiot." "Actually, I do think that, and I'm not an idiot.

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.

From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God.' 'Then who are you?' 'The personnel officer who hired God.

Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt.

Like Santa Claus. You adults pretend he doesn't exist, but we know that he really does.

I have never resisted the Lord in my life, Sister LeSueur, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

My father once told me that there are no gods; only the cruel manipulations of evil people who pretended that their power was good and their exploitation was love. But if there are no gods; why are we so hungry to believe in them? Just because evil liars stand between us and the gods and block our view of them does not mean that the bright halo that surrounds each liar is not the outer edges of a god, waiting for us to find our way around the lie.

In fact she's a Baptist, which is almost like being Christian, only louder.

You've lost faith in yourself? Isn't that rich? A god who's become a self-atheist!

My husband is a good man, she said. It's important to him to be a good man. He has to not only be good, he has to believe that he's good. In the eyes of God, in my eyes, in his parents' eyes, in his own eyes. Good.

People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

I'll obey you now, said Runnel. Brick laughed. Except when you think I'm wrong.

Só descredo no incrível." I only disbelieve the unbelievable.

Most scientists believe in God," said Sel. "Certainly most of us here.